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1.4 billion people around the world live in severe poverty, according to a World Bank report released last week.

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1.4 billion people around the world live in severe poverty, according to a World Bank report released last week. The bank has altered its definition of global poverty, moving the benchmark up from 1 to 1.25 per day.

In INDIA, 4.7 million people came out of poverty between 2002 and 20058212;that8217;s if 1.25 per day is taken as a benchmark for defining the poverty line

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